2018 · tv-movie · romance · coming-of-age
Christmas Wonderland
Directed by Sean Olson1h 30m2018
Heidi, who initially left her small town of Pleasant Valley with the dream of one day becoming a successful painter, has put her own art on hold to excel as an art gallery curator. Now, a week before the gallery’s big Christmas party, she must return home to watch her niece and nephew. She comes face to face with her high school love, Chris, now a teacher, and offers to help him find a new last-minute location for the Christmas dance.
Our read: Christmas Wonderland (2018) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded tv-movie · romance · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle tv-movie / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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